Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....

A group of actors on stage at the Knights of Columbus auditorium located on South Fourth St. in Louisville, Ky. The stage is designed as an outdoor space, with a chicken coup at the center of the stage. A piano is also at the back of the stage. At...

This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the JPM & Co. advertisement and the New Second and New Third School Readers, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, clockwise...

Two retouched photographs of product storage inside the W. J. Hughes & Sons Co. located at 14th and Maple Sts. in Louisville, Ky. The first photograph shows a white man wearing an apron over work clothes and a hat with a visor standing next to a...

A billboard advertisement for the "KASH KOLOR KONTEST" located at the 3rd to 4th Street Auto-Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The billboard is on a wooden fence that is between two brick buildings. On either side of the billboard are arch-way...

An aerial view of a power boat regatta for a 4th of July Celebration. Steam boats are visible near the river bank. A long row of people are standing along the river. There is damage to the right side and tip of the negative.

Address: 604 South 10th Street. Thomas Fountain Blue, the head of the first Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library, with staff of Western Branch standing on the front steps of the library. Rachael Davis Harris, a former teacher...

Four African American men are building a brick wall around industrial-looking equipment, possibly part of a furnace. Another man, standing on a pipe, is looking down from above. Pipes are visible above the men.

Three African American women are standing in front of conveyer belts moving bottles of Coca-Cola inside the bottling works on Bank Street. A white man wearing a white uniform appears to be watching over them.

An African American woman is standing in a kitchen talking on a wall mounted telephone. There is a large sink mounted on the wall. A large stove also appears. A doorway to a pantry is behind the woman. There is a blurred image of a cat, flopped...

An amateur boxing match in the gym at the Presbyterian Community Center located at 731 Hancock St. in Louisville, Ky. A boxing ring is set up in the middle of the gym and two young shirtless African American boys are inside the ring wearing boxing...

A Sunday School group made up of African American children, along with one adult African American woman and four white adults (three women and one man) standing in front of the Presbyterian Colored Mission located on Preston St. in Louisville, Ky....

Three images of African Americans with Louisville Textile Company. There are two photographs of a different man standing at the bottom of the steps outside a brick building. The third image has a group of men and women standing in two rows at the...